More than just cake - Lawliet x OC -

M&M

This chapter is one of my favorites. I just love writing Matt and Mello! I think that's the reason I love Death Note - it's so rich with characters! For example Matt - he has like 5 lines in the manga, and yet he is a whole person with an interesting story. The writers of Death Note were just crazy good at creating characters. (All but female ones... the feminist in me is insulted by the horrible lack of decent female character in Death Note.)

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January 7th, 2010

Walking straight wasn't easy, with head in the clouds.

Matsuda's kisses and his surprising confession of love, had turned Fay's heart into a hummingbird, or so it felt - the fluttering in her chest just wouldn't calm down.

Can it be... can it be I'm falling for him?

Me? For Touta Matsuda?

That thought was both exhilarating and terrifying, and it so completely engulfed her mind, that she didn't notice the thin man in black leather, before almost walking straight into him.

"Shit!" she shrieked, her heart jumping to her throat. "Mello, you scared the crap out of me!"

Mello leaned his back to the wall, his jacket open, revealing the bare skin of his lower abdomen, as if making a point that he couldn't have cared less about the freezing weather. He looked young, still childish in a way, but there was a new scar on him, big, raw and red, covering the left side of his face and forehead. It made him look... dangerous. Like his face finally matched his personality.

"So, you're sleeping with that dude, who was sucking your face?" he smirked.

"None of your business." Fay snapped. "Mello, Christ! I haven't seen you in almost five years! What the Hell are you doing here?"

"I could ask you the same question. Last I heard, you were playing mommy at Wammy's."

He said those words with so much repulse, it made the air sticky. Not for the first time, Fay wondered what had happened to Mello, to hate Wammy's so much. To hate everything and everyone so much. But it would do no good to ask, she knew. Mello only respected those who didn't show their weakness.

She raised her chin, to stare him down.

"Asshole. You know why I'm here." she said. "And you're here for that same reason. To kill Kira."

Mello made a low chuckle.

"Nice to see motherhood hasn't destroyed all your spunk. So, who's taking care of little L?"

"Roger."

"He's still alive?" Mello rolled his eyes. "Gods - I thought he was old when I was a kid."

"You're still a kid, Mello." Fay stated. "And yeah, Roger is alive. Wammy's is the safest place for Lily to be, in case--"

She stopped mid sentence, but Mello caught her meaning nevertheless.

"In case you and Near lose this game."

"Yeah."

"Hmm." Mello sighed. "I need to talk to you about that."

"I gathered. It's not like I walked into you by accident." Fay replied, stuffing her hands to the pockets of her hoodie. "So, talk to me. What do you want?"

Mello glanced around, as if suspicious of everyone and everything around.

"Not here. Let's go inside."